Melantris (world)

Melantris/Melantris (Leonidae 2733)
Classic Era (1116)	A6669C7-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 9 High (4 billion) Government C Charismatic Oligarchy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G7 V M8 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Melantris is a high-population, industrial world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• Its economy is rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to rapidly improve barring outside forces.
• This world is also the overall capital of an interstellar government with the massive extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This dangerous world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions make it dangerous to visitors.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or over technology standards for Charted Space.
• It is a member of the Dynchia Comitia in the Melantris Subsector of Leonidae Sector.

• This world has a nearby Naval Base, usually associated with military starships.
• This world has a nearby Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces.
• It is the homeworld of the Dynchia, a sophontic species and minor human race.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

No information yet available.

Binary Solar System

Melantris Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Sialann G7 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.95	5480 - 5550	0.83567
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0043	0.0758	0.88 - 1.56	0.43	4.3
	Orbit #	*	*	3	1	6
	Remarks
	Sialann
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Sialann B M8 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.085	2420 - 2570	0.00018
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0005	0.0011	0.01 - 0.03	0.05	0.5
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	1
	Remarks
	Sialann

System Data

The fourth planet of Sialann is a large terrestrial world, with considerable liquid water, ice, and a hostile nitrogen-dominated atmosphere. This world (named Perentris) is being slowly terraformed by the Dynchia.

Two gas giants orbit the companion star.

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

2733 Melantris (Dynchia Comitia)

Starport: Class I.

Diameter: 6,200 miles (9,900 km). Gravity: 0.77g.
Atmosphere: Standard oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 62%.
Climate: Cool.
Population: 4.6 billion.
Government: Oligarchy (Council of the 12 Tribes).
Control Level: 4.
Tech Level: 10.
World Trade Number: 5.5.

Native Lifeforms

The local biochemistry is compatible with Humans, although some native foods are hard for non-Dynchia to digest.

Animal life has not produced anything with complex intelligence.

History & Background (Dossier)

The proto-Dynchia planted on Melantris were subject to considerable genetic manipulation during the Ancient era. The experiment may have been intended to alter the fundamental psychology of the Human species, producing a strain of Humaniti with a distinctive series of social instincts. Dynchia have no sense of territorial claim nor (possibly related) any sense of distinction by sex or reproductive status.

Dynchia are tribal, but there is no sense of physical territory. The clans and tribes are physically intermixed. Every clan and tribe maintains its own shrines, at which rituals are held in honour of revered ancestors, but these are not necessarily anywhere near one another.

Language

See: Dynchia Standard.

World Timeline

• 300,000 years ago: The Ancients bring the ancestors of the Dynchia to Melantris.
• -12,000: Dynchia discover agriculture.
• -2200: Dynchia experience an Industrial Revolution.
• -1926: Melantris launches its first space probes.
• -1820: The Dynchia have achieved a TL-8 spacefaring culture. Soon after, Solomani arrive and make contact, bringing with them the jump drive.
  • During the collapse of the Rule of Man, a number of Solomani migrate into the Melantris region. Some Solomani settlements are incorporated into the Dynchia society.
• Circa -1500: The Dynchia contact the Ithklur Aexzz.
  • After several centuries of skirmishing and cross-border vendettas, the Hive Federation intervenes.
• Circa -1200: The princes of the 12 most prominent tribes meet in Council to establish the Dynchia Comitia.
• -1056: The Hivers mediate a comprehensive peace between the Comitia and the Ithklur Aexzz, which sets the border of Dynchia expansion to trailing.
• Circa 800: The first traders from the Third Imperium arrive in Dynchia space by way of the Harodar Hegemony to coreward.

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• Classic Traveller Alien Module 2: K'kree (named but no further data)
• Classic Traveller Alien Module 7: Hiver (named but no further data)
• GURPS Traveller: Humaniti
• Author & Contributor: Michael Allyn Davis (MADDOG) of the HIWG (generated data)